Breakfast links: Someday my streetcar will come
Not this year
The H Street streetcar probably won’t start taking passengers until 2016. The line still requires one more round of testing and DC FEMS continues to drag its feet on a safety certification. Meanwhile, car drivers’ mistakes caused most of the crashes. (WAMU, City Paper)
Sell don’t swap FBI
Rep. Steny Hoyer doesn’t want the government to swap land for the new FBI building. He said selling the building could bring in more money. But, a swap would avoid congress having to allow money for a new building. (WBJ)
Charters for change
District charter schools are slightly more segregated than their DCPS counterparts. Washington Latin and a few others are trying to change that by enrolling students from across the city. (Post)
Metro for all Marylanders
A new report finds 40,000 daily Metrorail/Metrobus trips come from Marylanders who reside in counties other than Montgomery and Prince George’s, underscoring WMATA’s importance to the entire state. (Bethesda Beat)
Local labor pool
DC residents comprise 32% of the District’s labor market. They also tend to hold lower-paying jobs. (District, Measured)
MoCo’s Bike Master Plan
Montgomery County is moving forward on a Bicycle Master Plan that will initially focus on White Flint and Shady Grove. It has the potential to bring separated bike lanes to other urbanized parts of the county. (WTOP)
Billboard fights congestion
A Stafford County supervisor has rented billboard space asking drivers to support a petition to extend the I-95 Express Lanes further south into Spotsylvania County. (WTOP)
And…
When White’s Ferry started drifting down the Potomac, one woman saved it. (Post) … DC developers are buildings condos with marijuana grow closets (UrbanTurf) … A new ART route will take over a Metrobus one on the Lee Highway (ARLnow)